Haiku N°27 (Sun) Liên Hoàng-Xuân

« Sometimes it feels like
my heart is a haunted castle
in the desert
in every room there is a man
some are louder than others »

This series of painted and gilded woodcuts is inspired by traditional Romantic poetry, such as Nizami's Majnun and Layla corpus of Arabic and Persian poems and Hafez's divan. Liên Hoàng-Xuân was also inspired by the modern elegies of Mahmoud Darwich and Jean Genet.

Liên Hoàng-Xuân takes up war stories, apocalyptic myths and conspiracy theories, accompanying these haikus with their more romantic speech. Through these revivals, the artist plays with the sentimental and personal destinies of individuals, intertwined with the invisible power of broader historical dynamics that ultimately overtake and destroy them.